Method of packing crush-work fabric.



H. T. LOOMIS.

METHOD OF PACKING CRUSH WORK FABRIC. APPLICATION FILED JULYH. 91s.

1 1 82,9 1 6 Patented May 16, 1916.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY T. LOOMIS, 0 F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO FRANK AND LAMBERT, INCL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

METHOD OF PACKING CRUSH-WORK FABRIC.

Patented May 16, 1916.

Serial N 0. 39,812.

1,182,916. Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 14, 1915.

member a is secured to the back sheet memher a in any desired manner.

In the practice of my invention, the sheets at are arranged in pairs with the front sheet members fa adjacent, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, and a separator b is placed between the pairs of sheets so as to prevent the sheet members a from coming together or being pressed together andthus disfigured. I The separator Z), as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, consists of a horizontal strip 6 of any suitable material and transverse strips 6 through which the strip 6 is passed centrally thereof, and the transverse strips 5 are provided with upwardly and downwardly directed projections o which serve to separate and space the separate sheets a as shown in Fig. 1.

In Fig. 4:, I have shown a modified form of the separator b in which two of the longitudinal strips are employed, and the transverse strips 6 are made longer, and this form of separator is intended for use in larger boxes or cases; and in Fig. 5 I have shown another modified form of separator b which comprises asheet b of fiber or other suitable material having upwardly and downwardly directed projections b which are cut from the material thereof.

In Fig. 1, I have also shown at 0 a box or crate comprising a body portion 0 and a top portion 0 and made in the usual or any preferred manner, and in packing the sheets a in the box or crate 0 according to my improved method, one sheet is laid on the bottom of the box or crate with the front member a upwardly, after which a separator is placed thereon and another sheet a is placed on the separator with the front and both of the sheet members a and a member a directed downwardly, after may consist of the same material, or the {K which another sheet a is placed on the last back sheet member a may consist of one ijnamed sheet with the front member a dimaterial and the frontsheetmember a of greeted upwardly, after which another sepaanother material, and in the manufacture of ,,-rat0r is placed in position and so on, and goodsof this class the front sheet member a in this way a box or crate of any size or is crimped, Corrugate or folded londimensions may be filled with crush-work gitudinally and transversely, or transverselyfabric packed according'to my improved and diagonally, or manipulated in any premethod, and a box or crate may beshipped ferred manner so as to form it into elevaj, with the material therein to any point and tions or projections a which may be in any the cover of said box or crate may be repreferred form, and which may extend longitudinally and transversely of the sheet, member 64 or diagonally and transversely thereof, and at the depressions a between the elevations or projections the front sheet To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HARRY T. LooMIs, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improved Method of Packing Crush-Work Fabric, of which the following is a specification such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to an improved method for packing what is known as crush-work fabric for shipment, display and other purposes, and the object thereof is to provide for the packing of sheets of fabric of the class specified so that the said fabric will not be compressed or crushed out of form but will retain its proper shape.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a packing box or case and showing my improved method of packing crush-work fabric; Fig. 2 a plan view of a separator which I employ between separate sheets of the fabric; Fig. 3 a cross section on the line 33 of Fig. 2 and on an enlarged scale; Fig. 4 a view similar to Fig. 3 but showing a modification and on a scale similar to that of Fig. 2; and, Fig. 5 alongitudinal sectional view showing a modification.

Crush-work fabric is a fabric employed, usually, for lining burial caskets and is made into sheets a, each of which consists of front and back sheet members a and a moved at any time and the sheets of crushwork fabric displayed or examined without injury to said fabric or without crushing or disfiguring the same.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The herein described method of pack ing crush work fabric composed of front and back members, said method consisting in arranging the sheets of fabric with the front members adjacent and placing a separator having upwardly and downwardly projecting parts between the front members of said fabric with the projecting parts of the separator entering the recesses in said fabric.

2. The hereindescribed method of packing crush work fabric composed of front and back members, said method consisting of arranging the sheets of fabric in a box or crate with the front members adjacent and placing a plurality of separators having upwardly and downwardly projecting parts between the adjacent front members with cm of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the projecting parts of the separators entering the recesses formed in said fabric.

3. The herein described method of packing crush work fabric composed of front and back members, said method consisting of arranging the sheets of fabric with the front members adjacent and placing a plurality of spaced separators having upwardly and downwardly directed parts between the adjacent front members with the projecting parts of the separators entering the recesses formed in said fabric.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of the subscribing witnesses this 13th day of July 1915.

HARRY T. LOOMIS.

Witnesses:

C. MULREANY, A. R. APPLEMAN.

the Commissioner 01 Pstsnts,

Washington. EC. 

